Orthodox Church Tour

[@kenstevens9841]

Beautiful. "Beauty will save the world." (Dostevsky)

[@smwoods72]

Dostoevsky

[@franciscolaureano7703]

What a gorgeous church.

[@soare5182]

Gorgeous church. I'm not used to see orthodox churches with benches though, we stand up or on our knees.

[@guts2186]

Same

[@noelxlk]

same

[@productions4452]

Its a matter of Tradition really. Russian and Slavic Orthodox dont have benches while we Greek Orthodox have them.
Personally I am in favour of no benches however its not for us to decide.

[@soare5182]

@productions4452 Tradition is not dogma. During the liturgy we are not allowed to sit in the church, exception make the sick people. We are suppose to sit straight as the Lord made us facing the angels, the saints and The Holy Trinity.

[@productions4452]

@@soare5182 Perhaps you are right. But the Greek Orthodox synods have not brought this discussion on the table. Although it is the right thing to do to talk when matters of faith are at stake, there is no reason to cause another schism in the church over this.

[@paulbaysa9133]

Beautiful ✝️📖☦️ christian Christianity.. an experience of part of heaven on earth. Icons & the architecture & all the symbols even candles tells a lot of story. Amen 🙏 greetings coming from the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@blakemartin1893]

That is Holy Trinity in Dallas. Absolutely beautiful

[@ferasmakhoul7186]

ما اجمل بيتك يارب القوات

[@jeromestafford3089]

Beautiful! Thank you for this.

[@Maria-hj4jm]

I just found this Channel and I like it so far. As an Orthodox Christian myself it is wonderful to see because of unfortunately covid-19 haven't been able to go to church for a while. Just seeing an orthodox church right now gives me an overwhelming sense of calm and peace so thank you very much.

[@bosstoober8782]

Beautiful. Love the symbols! Hail Mary!

[@5kydragon347]

That’s so beautiful!

[@besa7670]

⛪እናመሰግናለን 🇪🇹

[@DarkLordTran]

I know this place! This is holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas. I live nearby but I don’t attend mass since I’m a Catholic but I have been here for the Greek festivals

[@kikisinozic7475]

As a Catholic I absolutely love this design.

[@kikisinozic7475]

@FirstJohn2.12-17 I agree, but some Catholic Churches look beautiful too

[@gayleeidson6724]

So beautiful ❤️. I am going to start going to our local Orthodox Church. I'm nervous, but so excited !!! God has really put it in my heart to go and participate in the original church ❤️. Praying 🙏 for guidance !!!!

[@Pasto08]

Thanks Theoria for a sound video! In my home country we don't have pews in Orthodox Churches.
Asking out of curiosity: how do you do prostrations etc. when pews are present and is it the norm that people stand through the services?

[@miksjunior]

Many Greek Orthodox Churches in western countries have pews.
My Serbian Orthodox and Russian don't have them. Also many Coptic Orthodox have them also.

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

@@Alki777 This is immensely stupid. Pews exist in America because we're fat and lazy and like to sit.
Still something to be somewhat bemoaned, but not everything is a Masonic plot.

[@melonyrobinson9944]

Ive been to many churches with pews or chairs, and generally people stand for most of the service except the epistle, but will occasionally sit through some less crucial parts of the service like litanies if they wish, especially eldery people and young children

[@melonyrobinson9944]

Also, i'm not sure if people do full metanias in the pews, but they do have little knees cushion things that unfold from the pews in front of you so you can kneel upright and lean of the pew in front for the kneeling part of the service.

[@Bablu0712]

God bless you and your family 🎉 Thank You Very Much For This

[@AnNgo-uk1gf]

Beautiful church. We have a ROCOR mission here which is only a rented out house with the living room as the chapel and the clergy live in the bedrooms. Hopefully it goes someday though.

[@ladyofthewoods2448]

Thank you I’m trying to learn this is so helpful for those of us searching

[@St.JohntheTheologianOrthodox]

Beautiful video

[@unoriginalclips9923]

Beautiful

[@vvhh9578]

I see from this video ,beautiful painting and build architecture

[@Ujinh345]

It's so beautiful

[@Kathleensailorgirl]

So beautiful, thanks for sharing 🙏🙏

[@marysadat8020]

It reminds me of Vank Church in Isfahan
The architecture is beautiful and awesome

[@UnderstandingtheOrthodoxFaith]

Amazing video, very descriptive explanation for new comers.

[@one_step_sideways]

Too many seats for my taste. Russian Orthodox churches have very few seats that are located to the side and many churches aren't as bright or white

[@pinkksahani8586]

❤️❤️🧚‍♀️ beautiful...

[@iulian2300.]

God bless Texas

[@oliverpony]

In The Serbian orthodox church we didn't even have benches everyone stands

[@CPTAwesome9000]

This may be in America.

[@oliverpony]

​@@CPTAwesome9000our's was in Canada

[@michaelgeleff4991]

Thank you for this! Can you do a part 2? 3? or more?

[@OrthoKarter]

Very Beautiful. The Church i go to doesnt have a building yet, its in a hotel. however its still good.

[@Jovan719]

In orthodox church many of them dont have benches,so during liturgy we stand and not sit

[@tayikolla6205]

Once I was told I couldn't use the candles that I had brought with me which were exactly the same as the ones they sold. I had to purchase the candles from them...

[@HelenWassendorf]

What a beautiful church! Where is it?

[@Theoria]

Dallas, TX :D

[@MajorMustang1117]

Why pews?

[@balak1]

It seems mostly bigger churches have "solia" (hope I didn't misspell it). What about the paintings of the founders?

[@domarinolo7747]

The founder? Just look up 😊
Jesus Christ is the founder

[@Mcmcmcmcs]

Here in serbia there's no seats in orthodox church

[@Awhina-Lee]

Se precious

[@xZxOxVx]

❤️☦️❤️

[@Saint_nobody]

Wow. Why was my comment deleted?

[@expert3593]

Holy trinity in dallas

[@George_033]

I think I've visited this specific church before.

[@marcmanolache2106]

Very beautiful, but there are some modernist alterations I don’t like. There should not be any pews, only stacidia on the perimeter of the nave. It’s also missing a horos beneath the dome.

[@user-7lf7w]

What is behind royal doors

[@Zaarck0]

The altar and the furnitures to prepare the holy communion.

[@anyarudko6308]

What church is this?

[@expert3593]

Holy trinity in dallas

[@HayaHa-dw3vk]

Orthodox church with chairs???

[@r.fantom]

One thing, in Orthodox Churches there are no seats. We stand up all the time.

[@Rosiejanedoe]

Makes it rough for the elderly with limited mobility.

[@r.fantom]

@@Rosiejanedoe Sorry I meant, we have but they are by the side, not like this, and its more like chairs.. and not too many of them.. but we mostly all stand.

[@orangecobraEU]

But why

[@r.fantom]

@@orangecobraEU Because it's oldest Church tradition? Why would we sit? By standing up and enduring, not only by enduring but just by standing we show respect towards God. Elderly people can sit, you can sit too, doesn't matter, but everyone usually stands. We have like chairs on sides. You will have to understand that first Church was Holy Apostolic Chatolic Church, which is today called Orthodox, due to 1054 when Catholic Church was created.

[@orangecobraEU]

@@r.fantom i am pretty sure it was cathloics who splited from orthodoxe, and that orthodoxe religion existed way before

[@sandro-eliesaad9541]

But this is a Melkite Church, not Orthodox, no?

[@Gibbstronic]

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas. Not Catholic.

[@olgaivanko9765]

This church Serbian ? Russian?

[@Theoria]

Greek

[@orthobro2004]

DO THE ORTHODOX VIOLATE THE SECOND COMMANDMENT?
Here is the 2nd commandment:
"4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them"
(Ex 20:4-5 NKJV).
Also in the context (it will be necessary next):
"3 You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them" (Ex 20:3-5).
Traditionally, there are 3 interpretations of what the prohibition may be about:
1. Creating any images and worshiping them.
2. Creating images of any gods (including the true One) and worshipping them.
3. Creating images of false (in particular, pagan) gods and worshipping them.
The 1st variant is obviously not Christian. It used to be understood this way only during the fall of Old Testament judaism. The fact that such literalism has nothing to do with the command of God is evidenced by the fact that He Himself ordered images of cherubim to be made all over the Old Testament Temple, including in the Holy of Holies. As well as images of a bronze serpent and so on.
Variant 2 provides for a prohibition on the depiction of any gods, including the true One. But if antiTrinitarians can still be understood, then almost all Protestants are Trinitarians and believe that Christ is the true God (and I completely agree with them). According to this logic, all protestant depictions of Christ are nothing more than a violation of the second commandment. As for the second part of this prohibition - worshiping them, no Christian denomination violates this injunction.
And here remains the 3rd variant - a prohibition on the depiction of pagan gods and the worshipping these images. And this variant appears to us the most logical. If look at the second commandment in the context of the first, as many biblical scholars advise, it turns out that the second verse is simply a continuation of the first one - "You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above..." or (forgive me in advance for this interpolation, and a clumsy one by the way) "You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself THEIR carved image - any THEIR likeness of anything that is in heaven above..."
So, the Orthodox cannot violate this commandment TWICE. First, we do not make idols of false gods. Secondly, we do not worship or serve any material objects or anyone or anything at all except God.
For us icons are an not obligatory condition either for becoming righteous or becoming saved. We use them just because we can. If someone doesn’t consider them helpful for praying, it is up to him not to use them. But not to reject them.

[@user-ge3gq2rx9p]

Why do you have chairs

[@mhemnath2806]

Won't they kneel down and pray

[@mr.atomic2970]

Wasnt that a Jewish Star on the Ground?

[@IrishEagIe]

Western Rite?

[@CLFmoto87]

No

[@oyekanmieniolanaheemat3063]

Mother of God?

[@noelxlk]

yes

[@spidey6077]

HURTFUL AND SAD

[@tobuscusfoop]

Protestant churches looks so plain

[@nicolaj622]

why are there benches? This is no orthodox church, you cannot sit while in the House of the King of Kings, our Lord, almighty God, it is impossible!

[@lyd4712]

So many icons, just like pagan beliefs

[@Zaarck0]

And we have God also, just like pagans used to have gods... what a coincidence !

[@brankabrnica1914]

In 1517 ex-catholic monk Luther PROTESTED the Pope, but didn't come back to the original Eastern Orthodox Christian Church founded by Christ in 33.

[@t-lovejones2620]

God doesn't have a mother or a father. Let's get this right. God don't need any parents God is the parent of life itself.

[@Zaarck0]

Yep. But as we believe in Jesus-Christ, being God, He needed a mother to come on earth. You really thought u’d teach us something ?

[@brankabrnica1914]

Please, research Christian history. Eastern Orthodox Church keep Christ's teaching intact since year 33.

[@Zaarck0]

@@brankabrnica1914 Glory to God ! ☦️☦️

[@martynjukes482]

Icons or idols?

[@Theoria]

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[@Zaarck0]

Icons!

[@northernlights880]

According to the 1st command methods I've known gods before you or make any driven image

[@catholicprofile550]

There is no beauty for the fate of the immoratal soul to which worships heresy…

[@whofan1967]

Sad for Catholics.

[@Zaarck0]

Wait. A catholic is telling that? I’m praying God that He may show you your own heresy

[@brankabrnica1914]

With Pope's blessing 800,000 Serbian Orthodox Christians were slaughtered in ww2 in Jasenovac, led by Franciscan monks. Repentance is the way🙏☦️

[@user-ol7yi4lk5t]

this is not an orthodox church. Orthodox Christians pray standing...

[@user-ol7yi4lk5t]

@@FirstJohn2.12-17 yes I know about that...thanks for the information. it is possible that they are Uniates...Orthodox who recognize the Pope. Orthodox churches do not communicate with them. Honestly, I have never seen benches for sitting in Orthodox churches (except when an Orthodox church, for example, buys a building from a Catholic church and uses it)

[@Dominio-Cattolico]

Beautiful